Jealousy In 'Just Me, Just Her'

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In the chapter “The Green Eyed Monster of Happiness,” the author introduces the human emotion jealousy. Jealousy, a vicious emotion that can make a person think irrational, and can governs a person’s actions they wouldn’t normally do. Fear, insecurity, anger, is a few emotions that are produce from jealousy. There are multiple types of jealousy but the one that the author emphasizes is the relationship type of jealousy, one that originates from love. In “Just Me, Just Her,” the author was informed that the woman he was currently in a relationship with, kissed another man. He starts to express anger, and feels betrayed. Even though this information wasn’t true the thought of not knowing spirals his emotions to a chaotic whirlpool of questions, “Why”, “How could she do this”, “Doesn’t she care.” Frenzied thoughts and forsaken memories go through this mind. Feeling everything they experience together was nothing but a lie. After the author was told about the kiss he tries to confront her. He tries, he looks into her eyes, and he feels all of those feelings he had before the kiss. …show more content…

The author is in a middle of a party and he notices the same girl he was with earlier is at the party. She’s drunk, hugging, dancing around. He tries to hide his jealousy like it doesn’t bother him but his eyes keeps falling on her. He notices she’s talking to a man she once dated. Fear wraps his mind as he acknowledges that the love he shared with her was about to fade away. He tries to restrain the jealousy that has a hold on him, but his eyes keep veering to her. After a while he explodes and leaves but not without doing an act he would regret. An action he wouldn’t normally do but jealousy had a hold on

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